Meghrigian Institute organizes public and professional education
through various blindness prevention seminars and conferences.
Blindness
Prevention in Armenia. Setting Priorities (Clinical
Conference, October 7, 2002).
Over 100 clinicians representing all levels of ophthalmologic
service in Armenia attended this conference which highlighted
international perspectives on the epidemiology of eye diseases
and population-based strategies to prevent blindness. The
keynote speakers were Professor Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS,
Dean, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public
Health, and R. Pararajasegaram, MD, DSc, FRCS, FRCP, FRCOphth,
Consultant Ophthalmologist, World Health Organization
Contemporary Issues in Ophthalmology of Armenia
(Clinical Seminar, July 14, 2001).
Approximately 40 ophthalmologists and optometrists from
across Armenia attended the seminar to hear presentations
on the current status of ophthalmic services by 15 leading
local specialists.
Seminar on Blindness Prevention in Armenia. Annual
Meeting of the Ophthalmic Society of Armenia (Clinical
Seminar, September, 2000).
More than 50 ophthalmologists from Yerevan attended the
seminar. Among the guests were Sarkis H. Soukiasian, MD,
Director, Vision Correction Center (Boston, USA) and Paul
C. Barsam, MD, F.A.C.S., Diplomate, American Board of Ophthalmology.
